Talk:Spirit (band)
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I have been told that the song "Stairway to Heaven" as performed and made famous by Led Zeppelin was in actual fact strongly plagiarised from one of the songs as written and performed by Spirit (please note the music and not the lyrics). Can anybody shed some light on this? Anybody with intimate knowledge on Spirit care to comment?
The song to which they're referring is entitled "Taurus". It was featured on Spirit's first, full-length album Spirit. As this album's publication preceded Led Zeppelin IV by a couple of years, there is no dispute over which ensemble first copyrighted a song on which the guitar riff common to both was featured. The two works are sufficiently dissimilar, however, to not warrant further controversy. The riffs in question, however, are nearly identical; and the contexts into which they fit are almost verbatim matches (both introducing the songs and running as themes throughout). Earthliberator 22:19, 25 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Plus the fact that Led Zeppelin backed up Spirit for some time... I'm not sure, but I don't think Spirit has recieved any credit for that song, which has sold more than a million copies and which Spirit actually wrote the music for! I'll think I'll add something about this on the Stairway to Heaven article. –The Phoenix 16:17, 11 Jan 2005 (UTC)
what else, i just feel so sad.....just another great musician left us. words are useless....remains the music. Thank you Mister Locke. signed: a Spirit admirator since ......pfff−
I met Spirit in 1973 when they toured in the UK and I'm sure the bassist was Larry Knight. Can anyone clarify his dates with the band?
BTW: At this time the band were carrying round an acetate of Potatoland which was supposedly for Epic release.
Delverie 11:05, 2 November 2006 (UTC)
- You could try asking the Spirit group on Yahoo (http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/randycaliforniaandspirit/), I believe they have an accurate list. Fnorp 12:24, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Offensive and slanderous information.
Come on, dude. That's just stupid. It's gone.Jack Meihoffer 22:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)
[edit] "1984"
Though this record was self-produced, first pressings of Ode single #ZS7 128 (of which I have both a promo and stock copy in my collection) credited Lou Adler as producer. I am inquiring as to where this factoid would fit in to the story of this number. –Wbwn 11:06, 5 April 2007 (UTC)
